So how many upcoming LG Windows Phones are there?

LGEver since LG released their last Windows Phone – the LG Jil Sander E906, the company had almost completely disappeared from the Windows Phone front, with the company making no contribution to the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” generation of …

By damaster in Mobile
April 22nd, 2012 at 3:11 am

Microsoft rakes in the cash with 3rd Qtr results: will it continue?

microsoft-logoYesterday, Microsoft released their 3rd Quarter Earnings statement, and reported a stellar quarter.  This morning, $MSFTs  US stock market price is up over 5.5% on the news (and up over 20% since last April – you can follow some …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 20th, 2012 at 11:40 am

Nokia Lumia sales are “mixed”, will Apollo come to the rescue?

nokia 900Nokia released its first quarter earnings today, and as expected, the news isn’t good.  Posting a $1.7 billion quarterly loss, on net sales that were down 30%, Nokia continues to struggle with “greater than expected competitive challenges”, and “mixed’ …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
April 19th, 2012 at 11:11 am

Windows Phone 8 to all current Windows Phones? Not so fast

Earlier today we reported that WMPowerUser posted a transcribed video interview snippet from Portuguese site Zwame.pt, quoting a Microsoft evangelist as saying that “all actual devices will get upgrade to the next major version of Windows Phone (we´re talking about …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
April 17th, 2012 at 9:02 pm

Windows Phone 8 coming to all current phones, says evangelist

In a video interview with Portuguese Windows Phone Evangelist Nuno Silva published by Portuguese site Zwame.pt last month, and noticed by WMPowerUser, comes news that all current Windows Phones will be able to be upgraded to Windows Phone 8 …

By Kip Kniskern in Mobile
April 17th, 2012 at 3:39 pm

SkyDrive releases ODF support, more: promises “bigger things coming soon”

As a few of our commenters on this morning’s SkyDrive post noticed, the SkyDrive team, via their Twitter account, have released “a few cool things”:

[blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/#!/SkyDrive/status/192298695184756736"]

The link, which not coincidentally is using the new “sdrv.ms” URL shortener, …

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 17th, 2012 at 2:28 pm

Google Drive on the horizon: can SkyDrive measure up?

Google-DriveThe Next Web considered themselves lucky yesterday to be on the receiving end of a draft release, purportedly from a Google partner,  giving away “a wealth of information” on Google’s upcoming competitor to Dropbox and SkyDrive.  That service, which …

By Kip Kniskern in Featured News
April 17th, 2012 at 9:37 am

Bing Maps, Windows Phone Translator App updated

A pair of posts on the Bing blogs today announced some new features for both Bing Maps and the Bing Translator App for Windows Phone.

First, with Bing Maps, the nearly 900 venue maps are now much easier to …

By Kip Kniskern in Bing
April 16th, 2012 at 4:19 pm

Xbox press conference set for E3: June 4th, 10am

e3After Sony’s E3 press conference announcement yesterday, Microsoft has today announced their press event time and date for this year’s E3 conference: Monday June 4th at 10am, according to a post on the Examiner.com and elsewhere.  Even though Microsoft has

By Kip Kniskern in News
April 16th, 2012 at 3:15 pm

Microsoft to bring Skype into the web browser?

SkypeEver since Microsoft and Skype closed the deal in October last year, we haven’t heard much about what the future holds for Skype, and how Microsoft is going to integrate into its products and services. Microsoft did release the Skype

By damaster in News
April 16th, 2012 at 6:55 am